NASA’s four megapixel CCD camera known as the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) snapped a...
Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, known in its abbreviated form as 67P, will reach its perihelion, its closest orbital point to the sun, this Thursday,...
Scientists working on the NOvA experiment at Fermilab have discovered the first evidence of oscillating neutrinos. Neutrino oscillation, which was first predicted...
Some animals have pupils with horizontal slits, others have ones with vertical slits, and some even have round pupils similar to humans....
A new video from NASA’s Dawn Mission offers a stunning look at the dwarf planet Ceres, revealing a towering mountain and mysterious...
Last week the Future of Life Institute released a letter calling for an international ban on autonomous artificially intelligent weapons. Among the...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has partnered with fishing app developer FishBrain to create a new app that will help officials...
NASA scientists have tracked a mysterious group of “outcast” asteroids to their birthplace. According to Tech Times, the astronomers identified a family...
The load carried by a bumblebee impacts its flight, a new study has found. Researchers from Harvard University and the Royal Melbourne...
NASA spaceflight veteran Scott Kelly took some time out on Saturday to answer questions on Twitter. After inviting followers to join him for...
In a mysterious summer trend, another dead whale has washed up on the shores of California’s Pacific beaches, according to marine officials....
The European Space Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Hubble Space Telescope captured stunning imagery of the Lagoon Nebula, a...
A species of jackal from Eurasia and Africa has been re-classified as a separate species of wolf after a new study conducted...
Japanese scientists claim to have successfully test fired the world’s most powerful laser, the two petawatt Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments (LFEX),...
NASA scientists are celebrating the discovery of our solar system’s closest next-door neighbor, HD 219134b, a rocky super-Earth — classified as such because...
Leave it to two of the world’s brainiest universities to figure out how to walk on water. On July 30, Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for...
The European Space Agency’s Philae lander has sent home a treasure trove of information after landing on Comet Churyumov-Gerasimneko 67P in November...
Prominent climate scientist James Hansen and his colleagues indicated in a new paper that even a moderate increase in global temperatures can...
New research explains how ants work together to move their food to a desired location. A group of scientists at the Weizmann...
The nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., is literally sinking into the sea, according to the findings of a recently published study. The study,...